by Beat Schindler | Mar 11, 2025 | Words, You
A picture of me when I was 17 It got me thinking. If I knew then what I know now, what would I have told me when I was 17? Well, I can’t turn back the clock, but I don’t have to think twice to see the one in the pic clearly is me. Therefore, first things first, it...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 8, 2025 | Words, You
“Words of course.” I hear you and I wholeheartedly agree. But how does that work? How do words make us word-users? I don’t know and I’m obviously not the only one. What I do know — seemingly the only one — is words didn’t exist when the world and you were born. There...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 8, 2025 | Words, You
The word-using animals have the wrong impression of the not-word-using animals. With this result: We have the equally wrong impression of ourselves. In the beginning is the word Fact, the children of all animals — whether word-using or not — arrive into this world...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 8, 2025 | Words, You
The purpose of words The word-using animals have the wrong impression of the not-word-using animals. With this result: We have the equally wrong impression of ourselves. In the beginning is the word Fact, the children of all animals — whether word-using or not —...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 6, 2025 | Words, You
What makes us word-users? “Words of course.” I hear you and I wholeheartedly agree. But how does that work? How do words make us word-users? I don’t know and I’m obviously not the only one. What I do know — seemingly the only one — is...
by Beat Schindler | Mar 6, 2025 | Words, You
Unforced blunders Perhaps because we began to use words only 13,750 years ago, which is but a cosmic heartbeat ago, perfect is elusive for us word-users. I could be wrong as I’ve been many times before. The best The best we can do is accept the perfect world...
